The Hidden Children

by Robert W. Chambers

Overview

"The thing about Rodgers is, he takes the horror — and it's horrible, all right — and turns it into the light just a little differently than you'd ever expect and from this angle you realize it's more tragic than horrid, more beautiful than hideous." — Orson Scott Card / F&SF. New Life for the Dead is one of the best horror collections of the 1990s, and it features many of Rodgers' best short works, including his Bram Stoker Awardwinning novelet, "The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775560401
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	11/01/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	611 KB

About the Author

Robert William Chambers (1865 - 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King in Yellow, published in 1895. Robert was first educated at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and then entered the Art Students' League at around the age of twenty, where the artist Charles Dana Gibson was his fellow student. Chambers studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and at Académie Julian, in Paris from 1886 to 1893 and his work was displayed at the Salon as early as 1889. On his return to New York, he succeeded in selling his illustrations to Life, Truth, and Vogue magazines. Then, for reasons unclear, he devoted his time to writing, producing his first novel, In the Quarter (written in 1887 in Munich). His most famous, and perhaps most meritorious, effort is The King in Yellow, a collection of Art Nouveau short stories published in 1895. This included several famous weird short stories which are connected by the theme of a fictitious drama of the same title, which drives those who read it insane. E. F. Bleiler described The King in Yellow as one of the most important works of American supernatural fiction. It was also strongly admired by H. P. Lovecraft and his circle. Chambers returned to the weird genre in his later short story collections The Maker of Moons, The Mystery of Choice and The Tree of Heaven, but none earned him as much success as The King in Yellow. Some of Chambers's work contains elements of science fiction, such as In Search of the Unknown and Police!!!, about a zoologist who encounters monsters. Chambers later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers had one of the most successful literary careers of his period, his later novels selling well and a handful achieving best-seller status. Many of his works were also serialized in magazines.

Table of Contents

	Mr. Rodgers's Neighborhood	1
	Stories
	The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead	1
	The Night Gil Rhys First Met His Love	38
	Emma's Daughter	52
	Frankenstein Goes Home	88
	Penny Lombard and the Heart Ken Found	111
	Poems
	Prometheus's Declaration of Love for the Vulture	36
	Tellus Mater at the Overpass	50
	Dance	51
	Rondel	87
	Vertical Motion	109
	December '88	110
	Sleep	139